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...hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I can't spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie is a hi-cal Pop-Tart to go. At the Deca Dance disco, a teenybopper flashes past wearing earrings cut from American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tasty Hi-Cal Pop-Tart to Go | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...show confirms what one had already suspected. It is bound to be a hit, because Benton was a dreadful artist most of the time. He was not vulgar in the tasteful, closeted way of an Andrew Wyeth. He was flat-out, lapel-grabbing vulgar, incapable of touching a pictorial sensation without pumping and tarting it up to the point where the eye wants to cry uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tarted Up Till the Eye Cries Uncle | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...look at a vigorous, vulgar American original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 18 MAY 1, 1989 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nahalin last week ended their prayers at the village mosque before sunrise and prepared for another day of fasting. Suddenly about 100 rifle-toting Israeli border policemen swarmed into Nahalin to make arrests, imposing a curfew on its 3,000 residents. Shouting vulgar insults, the Israelis started searching for young Palestinians suspected of stoning the cars of Jewish settlers traveling on nearby roads. Confronted by a stone-throwing mob, the policemen opened fire, killing a 28-year-old laborer named Riyadh Abu Gayadeh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Death Comes At Ramadan | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...degrading perceptions of women were not found only in paintings, but also in vulgar songs popular on the streets of Amsterdam in the 18th century, Van de Pol said...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Women's History Speech Discusses Prostitution | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

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